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The root AR-The root SPAS-Classes of roots - Number of
roots Demonstrative roots - Composition.

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325-384

Families and classes of languages — Distant relationship — Mor-
phological classes-Three stages, radical, terminational, inflec-
tional — Transition from one stage to another - Radical stage —
Terminational stage - Rask's and Prichard's classification
Vocalic harmony- Nomad languages - Agglutination and in-
flection
385-405

The five classes of the Ural-Altaic family- Samoyedic, Tun-
gusic, Mongolic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric - Samoyedic class - Altaic
languages - Tungusic class - Mongolic class - Turkic class
Turkish grammar - Finno-Ugric class - Castrén's classification

ERRATA.

P. 349, 1. 5, for dōsi read dōsein

P. 360, 1. 1, for er-jan read er-ian

P. 446, 1. 22, for Malayalan read Malayalam

P. 447, 1. 7, for Bhunis read Bhumij

THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE.

CHAPTER I.

THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE A PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

Name of the Science of Language.

HE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE is a science of very

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modern date. We cannot trace its lineage much beyond the beginning of our century, and it is scarcely received as yet on a footing of equality by the elder branches of learning. Its very name is still unsettled, and the various titles that have been given to it in England, France, and Germany are so vague and varying that they have led to the most confused ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new science. We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology, Scientific Etymology, Phonology, and Glossology. In France it has received the convenient, but somewhat barbarous, name of Linguistique. If we must have a Greek title for our science, we might derive it either from mythos, word, or from logos, speech. But the title of Mythology is already occupied, and Logology would jar too much on classical ears. We need not waste our time in criticising these names, as none of them has as yet received that universal sanction which belongs to the titles of

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